Seeking local election pointers

[beowabbit]

For the past year or so, I’ve been eating, breathing, and living national politics, but I’m ashamed to say I know nothing about any of the local races, not even who’s running. (And if there are any local ballot questions, I don’t know about them.)

So I’d love to have any information anybody has to offer about Quincy-specific stuff on the ballot, so I have a little more to go on than party affiliation. If anybody has links to election cheatsheets on news sites (or even just a list of the names on the ballot in Quincy), that would be great. If anybody wants to explain how they plan to vote in any particular race and why, that would also be great.

Thanks!

PS — It’s likely that we’re not going to agree about all this, so if you see somebody arguing against your candidate (who supports fluffy kittens and all that is virtuous) and for your candidate’s opponent (who as everyone knows is running on a platform of enslaving all of humanity to hideous tentacled demons from beneath the waves), please remember the immortal words of Bill and Ted and “be excellent to each other”. :-)

[EDIT: Oops! I meant to post this to quincy_ma, not my personal journal. I was puzzled why people who don’t live in Quincy were replying. But thanks! Your responses were very useful!]

Comments

[desiringsubject.livejournal.com]

The ballot questions are here

In brief: a no on 1 will leave income tax laws unchanged. A yes on 1 will eliminate the state income tax. Um. And, I'm guessing, schools and roads.

A yes on 2 will decriminalize small amounts of pot. Kittens would approve.

A yes on 3 will outlaw dog racing. I suppose puppies would approve, but kittens might like watching the doggies oppressed. And as imvfd points out, they are treated better than cows and chickens in this state and most others, so I can't get very exercised over that one.

[beowabbit]

Thanks. Yeah, I knew about the statewide ballot questions; I mean to post this to quincy_ma and was curious about local ballot questions (if any). I was wondering why I was getting so many answers from people who don’t live in Quincy!